Lonelygirl15

Sep 08, 2006 20:15

So I stumbled onto this today while making my rounds on the interweb. Oddly I hadn't heard anything about it up until now, and of course soon found myself wrapped up in the whole lonelygirl15 mystery ( Read more... )

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aoniedesade September 10 2006, 19:49:21 UTC
The LA Times and New York Times have both posted articles about the whole thing. Collectively, they think it's a hoax or "viral marketing", but no one can figure out what for.

Or maybe it's just too teenagers with too much free time and good editing software.

LA Times article

New York Times article

Salon.com VideoDog post

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makheru September 11 2006, 16:49:16 UTC
Yeah, I saw those articles when I started looking into the whole lonelygirl15 - 'phenomenon' - for lack of a better word. I'm 99% sure it's faked for promotional reasons, but who knows. At this point all I care about is what happens next as the whole thing is rather engrossing once you start getting into it.

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aoniedesade September 11 2006, 23:24:12 UTC
Lonelygirl15 eats brains.

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